"I want to be seen as beautiful because of my disability, not in spite of it," she said. In an interview for The Guardian covering both projects, Mullins told me that she was keen to be involved in the project because it was her ‘mission’ to challenge prevailing attitudes towards beauty. 13, this time in a pair of cherry wood prosthetic legs hand-carved to a design dictated by McQueen that whispered of the work of the Dutch-British sculptor and wood-carver, Grinling Gibbons, another recurrent reference in his work. Inside, a series of other subjects, all with physical disabilities, were also photographed in designs by McQueen himself, but also Hussein Chalayan, Roland Mouret, Owen Gaster, Philip Treacy and Comme des Garçons. Mullins was wearing metal ‘sprinting’ legs, the shape of which was based on a cheetah’s foot. 13 was staged and put Paralympic champion Aimee Mullins on the cover, shot by Nick Knight and styled by his then creative director, Katy England. McQueen famously guest-edited the September 1998 issue of Dazed & Confused magazine which came out only days before No. And so McQueen’s friends and the world’s most important buyers and press walked in to find a ground-level set made out of nothing more grand than unvarnished floorboards with a lowered, lit ceiling suspended above it and all quietly took their seats. 13, in particular, was sensitive as far as subject matter was concerned. McQueen and his team worked too hard on their shows for the focus to be on any guest, the story goes. 13 and received a polite thanks but no thanks: her presence would detract from the main event. Victoria Beckham famously asked to be invited to No. It was staged, as all the collections of that period were, at Gatliff Warehouse, an unused former bus depot in Victoria, for the spring/summer 1999 season. 13, he said, was "the only one that actually made me cry". While Alexander McQueen moved many to tears with his extraordinary London shows – shows that included Bellmer La Poupee, Joan and The Overlook – he himself would regularly claim that he wasn’t sure what all the fuss was about.
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